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Shadows on the Hudson is a novel by
Isaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.- Early life :...
. First serialized in
The ForwardThe Forward is a Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.As of 2008, the Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English editions. Each is effectively an independent publication with its own contents. Jane Eisner became Editor in June, 2008. The...
, a Yiddish newspaper, it was published in book form in 1997. It was translated into English by Joseph Sherman in 1998. The book follows a group of prosperous
JewishThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
refugees in
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following
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, just prior to the founding of
the state of IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
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